Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s movie ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ finally premiered under Un Certain Regard of Cannes Film Festival 2021. The event took place on the last Wednesday, July 7 at Bangladesh time 3:15 pm. After the premiere, the audiences of the Sal Dubusi Theater in the Cane Pale Do Festival center gave a standing ovation to Saad’s team. It is a great achievement for Saad as the first Bangladeshi filmmaker to be in the Cannes’ official selection. Who is Abdullah Mohammad Saad? A Glimpse of His Personal Life Abdullah Mohammad Saad was born in Chittagong in 1985. He spent his childhood in an extended family along with three elder sisters. Before his inception in the movie industry, he was a student of didactics at the Education and Research Institute of Dhaka University. 36-year-old Saad loves to be out of any exposure. Even in this era of social media, he doesn’t carry any sort of online engagement. This effect is also quite evident in his movie career. Read ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Review: The Bangladeshi movie screened in 74th Cannes Film Festival He prefers to get introduced by his creation over his name. He has been skipping all kinds of presence in broadcasting media ever since he started his journey in the film industry. Even after his movie getting selected in the Cannes film fest, he didn’t share any of his words until the final premiere show. Unlike everyone being desperate to be viral, his averse-to-publicity attitude is remarkable.

The waiting is over and the curtain 74th Cannes film festival is about to fall. This film festival will be celebrating from 6 July at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes, the coaster city of southern France. Spike Lee, the president of the juries, will announce the name of the Palme d’Or 2021 winner in the ending ceremony on 17 July. Like the previous years, a remarkable number of Asian films will also enlighten this time the big screen of Cannes. Are you waiting for the dazzling carnival of Asian movies at Cannes film festival 2021? Let’s get some idea about those films. Asian movies in 74th Cannes film festival Chinese Movies Na Jiazuo’s ‘Streetwise’ in Un Certain Regard Na Jiazuo, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, made his directorial debut in this crime-drama film. Here the story follows a young man working for a debt collector. His miserable life takes a drastic turn when he loses his two important people in one night. Read:Best Movies Preview: The Anticipation on the Run for Cannes Film Festival 2021 Wen Shipei’s ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ in Special Screening A mystery continues to grow around a road accident by mistake that happened a few years ago. It gradually reveals a connection among the car driver, the dead man’s wife, and the detective working on the case. This psychological thriller of the young director Wen Shipei was produced by the talented director Ning Hao. Wei Shunjun’s ‘Ripples of Life’ in Directors’ Fortnight This drama depicts the different stages of life through a nice presentation of the life of a man. Wei Shunjun keeps the same production unit for this movie that he used for his film ‘Striding into the wind’. And it was in the official selection of Cannes. Read Cannes Film Festival 2021: Movies and Filmmakers under the Limelight Japanese Movies Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ in Competition This film actually is an adaption of Haruki Murakami’s short story titled ‘Drive My Car’. In this film Hamaguchi has tried to show the relationship of an actor-director with his female driver on the way to Hiroshima to make a movie. Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Belle’ in Premier Mamoru Hosoda got popularity after his last work ‘Mirai’ which received the nomination in both of Oscar and Golden Globes. This time Hosoda has come with his new animation film Belle. It is about a 17-year-old girl who becomes a singer in a virtual world even after she is not used to singing in real life. Read Greatest Love Stories in Celluloid: Hollywood’s Best Romantic Movies of All Time Irani Movies Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ in Competition Asghar Farhadi is the writer of the Oscar-winning films ‘A Separation’ and ‘The Salesman’.  He won the best screenplay award at Cannes in 2016 for ‘The Salesman’ movie. This time Farhadi presents a thriller film titled ‘A Hero’ made by his own direction. ‘A Hero’ covers the major contemporary issues of modern societies. Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit the Road’ in Directors’ Fortnight This interesting drama directed by Panah Panahi is a story of a family on a road trip. Every member of the family plays their own weird behavior except the older brother. Panahi got awards in Cannes: Camera d’Or for White Baloon (1995) and Un Certain Regard for Crimson Gold (2003). Read Suman Ghosh’s Film Searching for Happiness is to Feature in London Indian Film Festival 2021 South Korean Movies Han Jae-rim’s ‘Emergency Declaration’ in Out of Competition The talented filmmaker Han assembled Song Kang-ho (one of the Cannes juries), Jeon Do-Yeon, and Lee Byung-hun in this mid-flight disaster-action film. It follows the incident of the unconditional landing of an airplane due to an unprecedented disaster. Eventually, it can spread quite thrill in Cannes’ festive palace. Hong Sang-soo’s ‘In Front of Your Face’ in Premiere The veteran filmmaker Hong Sang-soo won Prix Un Certain Regard for his comedy dram ‘Hahaha’ in 2010. Hong often highlights domestic realism in his films which will remain unchanged this time in this vivid family movie. It will be his 11th entry in Cannes. Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021 Indian Movies Rahul Jain’s ‘Invisible Demons’ in Cinema for the Climate Delhi-based director Rahul Jain has elaborated his experience of pollution in Delhi in this documentary. The unseen diseases occurring due to various pollutions are defined as invisible demons. It will be Jain’s debut to be at the international film festival. Bangladeshi Movies Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ in Uncertain Regard This Bengali film directed by the young director Abdullah Mohammad Saad features a contemporary social issue of Bangladesh. A college teacher pursues justice for a female student victim of sexual assault. Her child also faces misconduct at school. Noor stood against those injustices by going against all the social obstacles. Read Rehana Maryam Noor: The Bangladeshi Film in the prestigious list of Cannes Asian Movies in joint production Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’ in Competition The Thai director Weerasethakul has made his name by winning Palme d’Or for ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ film. The greatest indie actress Tilda Swinton stars Memoria. This character portrays a Scottish woman who experiences some supernatural phenomena while heading to her sister’s home. Multiple talents’ ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ in Special Screening This is an anthology film covering 7 stories from different directors around the world. Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul made their magnificent contribution to this film chronicles in the background of the ongoing pandemic situation. Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021 Zhao Liang’s ‘I Am So Sorry’ in Cinema for the Climate This is another masterpiece of the documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang. It delivers an interactive discussion on the impact of using nuclear energy across the world. The director himself poses as a guide who draws attention by exploring the consequences of mass destruction. C.B. Yi’s ‘Moneyboys’ in Un Certain Regard The plot of this Taiwanese-Austrian drama movie highlights cultural conflicts between town and village through the eyes of a street hustler. He keeps struggling to take care of his family but soon he realizes that his family won’t accept his homosexuality. This is Yi’s first feature film, and he made it with the production unit full of European professionals. Read Free Online Movies: Best Netflix Alternatives for Streaming Movies in 2021 Pilling up Undoubtedly, Cannes film festival 2021 will be a milestone for Asian movies to walk on the road to world-class cinema. These movies demand the appreciation to make their way to succeed financially in their own local movie industry. The audience as well as the critics have to come forward to make it happened. Thus, it will be possible for Asian films to continue occupying the top chart in international film fests. Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry

The competition event among the best movies of the Cannes film festival 2021 has already been knocking at the door. This most-coveted fest program is going to take place from July 6 to 17 at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes of France. Spike Lee, the American filmmaker, will lead the juries in competition while Andrea Arnold, the British filmmaker will be the head of Un Certain Regard. The program will be live from its opening day on TV Festival De Cannes, and its YouTube, and Dailymotion channels. Best movies of Cannes Film Festival 2021 Annette | In Competition | Opening Film The festival will launch with ‘Annette’ of the french director Leos Carax. This musical movie comes up with screenplay by Ron Mael and Russell Mael of Sparks. This film features the music of the pop band Sparks where the protagonist characters Marion Cotillard plays a stand-up comedian where Adam Driver plays an opera singer. They discover that their two-year-old baby girl has born with an unusual gift that is completely changing their lives. Read Cannes Film Festival 2021: Movies and Filmmakers under the Limelight The French Dispatch | In Competition This comedy-drama will likely delight the French with three different storylines about a fictional American newspaper staff. The casts are full of celebrities including Timothee Chalamet, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Benicio Del Toro, Saoirse Ronan. The eccentric filmmaker Wes Anderson made this film getting inspired by his love for an American weekly magazine ‘The New Yorker’. This movie depicts the freedom of the press as well as the significant connection of a reporter with the worldwide phenomena. Benedetta | In Competition The ever-controversial Dutch director Paul Verhoeven appears this time with ‘Benedetta’. This film, based on the non-fiction novel ‘Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy’ written by Judith C. Brown, portrays the unorthodox love affair of a nun through a national revolution. The Belgian actress Virginie Efira stars the title role. In this movie, Verhoeven engaged some crew members of his previous films. Interestingly, Verhoeven himself along with David Birke wrote the screenplay of Benedetta’. Read Greatest Love Stories in Celluloid: Hollywood’s Best Romantic Movies of All Time Bergman Island | In Competition Bergman Island is written and directed by the French filmmaker Mia Henson Love. Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps star in this comedy-drama. The theme is an American filmmaking couple embarks on a summer trip to an island on the Baltic Sea of Faro. The island is famous for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Burgman as he shot most of his iconic films there. Even he lived and died on that island. The screenplay of Bergman Island shows how the couple naturally loses their grip during the filmmaking. Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie are also in this artistically made film within a film. Memoria | In Competition Already Palme D’or winner in 2010, the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will come up with his first English language film Memoria. Tilda Swinton, the executive producer of the film, plays a Scottish tourist who encounters supernatural activities during the visit to her sister in Columbia. As the ending day of the festival matches with this Weerasethakul’s birthday, another Palme D’or will be a surprising gift for him. Speaking of the movie, he gave a hint of a great twist. Read 'Ahimsa – Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless' decodes the force of nonviolence Titan | In Competition Whereabouts of a young woman, a medical experiment, some automobile crimes, and cold movement of a mid-aged man; that’s all filled up within this horror movie. The plot is not straightforward like the previous films of the French film director Julia Docounau. Eventually, this film is getting lots of vibes and curiosities. Nathalie Boyer, Agathe Rousselle, and Vincent Lindon will be seen in this mysterious and compelling background. Julia is best known for her first feature film ‘Raw’ which won the International Federation of Film Critics prize. Mothering Sunday | Cannes Premier This British drama film has been made based on the novel Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift. The background is England after World War I where a love story is developed in a single-day drama. Jane, played by Odessa Young, secretly plans to meet her lover starred by Josh O’Connor. Colin Firth and Olivia Colman are also in the movie directed by the French director Eva Husson. The screenplay was written by the British playwright Alice Birch. Read Rehana Maryam Noor: The Bangladeshi Film in the prestigious list of Cannes Cow | Cannes Premier ‘Cow’ is a close-up portrait of the daily life of a regular dairy cow. The English filmmaker Andrea Arnold has made this masterpiece by exploring the challenges of the lives of this domestic animal and its great service to us. She is considered as a regular Cannes director and already won an Oscar in 2005 for her short film Wasp. BBC Film and Doc Society have sponsored the endeavor which is set to premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2021. Vortex | Cannes Premier After the successful presentation of Irreversible, Love, Climax, and Lux Aeterna in Cannes, the Argentine filmmaker Gasper Noe is going to bring a documentary-style film Vortex this time. The film revolves around the last days of an elderly couple as they gradually keep forgetting everything. The casts are the Iconic Italian director Dario Argento, Francoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz. It is considered to set a new dimension in the horror genre. This Noe film will undoubtedly create a big buzz like his previous ones. Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry Red Rocket | In Competition Sean Baker has made his name as the favorite indie filmmaker after his great achievement in The Florida Project. This pitch-black American comedy tells the story of a porn star who is no longer as famous as before. He goes back to his hometown expecting open arms reception. But he realized soon that he doesn’t belong there anymore. Bree Elrod and Suxanna Son have acted in the film while Simon Rex plays the main character. Baker himself and Chris Bergoch have written the screenplay together like the previous hit films. In a nutshell These are just a glimpse of the best movies of Cannes Film Festival 2021. There are more surprising motion pictures including independent films and some classics. It is obvious that the World is going to encounter some amazing screenplays that will lead the future movie genres. Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021

The curtain of Cannes Film Festival 2021 is finally going to unveil on July 7 at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes of France. It will continue till its grand finale on July 17 when the winner of Palm d’Or will be announced. After its founding in 1946, Cannes Film Festival has been recognizing films of new styles around the world every year. Pierre Lescure, the French journalist and TV executive elected as president in 2014, is remaining as the president. Thierry Fremaux, who became the general delegate of the festival in 2007, is coordinating the entire event. Movies Lineup in Cannes Film Festival 2021 Official Selection In Competition 1. Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’ 2. Ildiko Enyedi’s ‘The Story of My Wife’ 3. Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’ 4. Mia Hanse’s ‘Bergman Island’ 5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ 6. Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ 7. Nadav Lapid’s ‘Ahed's Knee’ 8. Nabil Ayouch’s ‘Casablanca Beats’ 9. Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Compartment No 6’ 10. Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy’s final part ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 11. Catherine Corsini’s ‘The Divide’ 12. Joachim Lafosse’s ‘The Restless Ones’ 13. Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris' 13th District’ 14. Saleh Haroun’s ‘Lingui’ 15. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’ 16. Justin Kurzel’s ‘Nitram’ 17. Bruno Dumont’s ‘France’ 18. Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Petrov's Flu’ 19. Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket’ 20. Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ 21. Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titan’ 22. Nanni Moretti’s ‘Three Floors’ 23. Francois Ozon’s ‘Everything Went Well’ 24. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ Read Greatest Love Stories in Celluloid: Hollywood’s Best Romantic Movies of All Time Un Certain Regard 1. Arthur Harari’s ‘Onoda’ 2. C.B Yi’s ‘Money Boys’ 3. Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ 4. Gessica Geneus’s ‘Freda’ 5. Alexey German Jr.’s ‘House Arrest’ 6. Hafsia Herzi’s ‘Bonne Mere’ 7. Tatiana Huezo’s ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ 8. Valdimar Johannsson’s ‘Lamb’ 9. Semih Kaplanoglu’s ‘Commitment Hasan’ 10. Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ 11. Eran Kolirin’s ‘Let There Be Morning’ 12. Kira Kovalenko’s ‘Unclenching The Fists’ 13. Youhann Manca’s ‘La Traviata, My Brothers And I’ 14. Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s ‘Women Do Cry’ 15. Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ 16. Sebastian Meise’s ‘Great Freedom’ 17. Teodora Ana Mihai’s ‘La Civil’ 18. Na Jiazuo’s ‘Gaey Wa'r’ 19. Eskil Vogt’s ‘The Innocents’ 20. Laura Wandel’s ‘Playground’ Read Suman Ghosh’s Film Searching for Happiness is to Feature in London Indian Film Festival 2021 Out of Competition 1. Nicholus Bedos’s ‘OSS 117: From Africa with Love’ 2. Emmanuelle Bercot’s ‘Peaceful’ 3. Ani Folman’s ‘Where is Anne Frank’ 4. Han Jae-rim’s ‘Emergency Declaration’ 5. Todd Haynes’s ‘The Velvet Underground’ 6. Cedric Jimenez’s ‘Bac Nord’ 7. Valérie Lemercier’s ‘Aline, The Voice Of Love’ 8. Tom McCarthy’s ‘Stillwater’ Read Rehana Maryam Noor: The Bangladeshi Film in the prestigious list of Cannes Cinema De La Plage 1. Justin Lin’s ‘Fast and Furious 9’ Midnight Screening 1. Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s ‘Bloody Oranges’ 2. Audrey Estrougo’s ‘Supremes’ 3. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s ‘Tralala’ Cannes Premier 1. Mathieu Amalric’s ‘Hold Me Tight’ 2. Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow’ 3. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Marx Can Wait’ 4. Samuel Benchetrit’s ‘Love Songs For Tough Guys’ 5. Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Deception’ 6. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s ‘Jane’ by Charlotte  7. Hong Sang-soo’s ‘In Front Of Your Face’ 8. Eva Husson’s ‘Mothering Sunday’ 9. Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Evolution’ 10. Gaspar Noe’s ‘Vortex’ 11. Ting Poo and Leo Scott’s ‘Val’ 12. Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry Special Screening 1. Karim Ainouz’s ‘Mariner of the Mountains’ 2. Shlomi Elkabetz’s ‘Black Notebooks I and II’ 3. Nadav Lapid’s ‘The Star’ 4. Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Babi Yar. Context’ 5. Noemi Merlant’s ‘Mi Iubita Mon Amour’ 6. Andrew Muscato’s ‘New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization’  7. Maxim Roy’s ‘The Heroics’ 8. Wen Shipei’s ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ 9. Ye Ye’s ‘H6’ 10. Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ 11. Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A New Generation Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021 Cinema for the Climate 1. Marie Amiguet’s ‘Velvet Queen’ 2. Cyril Dion’s ‘Animal’ 3. Louise Garrel’s ‘The Crusade’ 4. Rahul Jain’s ‘Invisible Demons’ 5. Zhao Liang’s ‘I Am So Sorry’ 6. Aissa Maiga’s ‘Above Water’ 7. Flore Vasseur’s ‘Bigger Than Us’ Short Film 1. Marija Apcevska’s ‘North Pole’ 2. Samir Karahoda’s ‘Displaced’ 3. Casper Kjeldsen’s ‘In the Soil’ 4. Mohammadreza Mayghani’s ‘Orthodontics’ 5. Adrian Moyse Dullin’s ‘The Right Words’ 6. Diogo Salgado’s ‘Through the Haze’ 7. Carlos Segundo’s ‘Sideral’ 8. Tang Yi’s ‘All the Crows in the World’ 9. Jasmin Tenucci’s ‘August Sky’ 10. Wu Lang’s ‘Absence’ Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021 Cinefondation 1. Sacha Amaral’s ‘Billy Boy’ 2. Carina-Gabriela Dasoveanu’s ‘Love Stories on the Move’ 3. Theo Degen’s ‘The Salamander Child’ 4. Natalia Durszewicz’s ‘Beasts among Us’ 5. Huang Menglu’s ‘The Cat from the Deep Sea’ 6. Lina Kalcheva’s ‘Other Half’ 7. Mya Kaplan Habikur’s ‘Night Visit’ 8. Auden Lincoln-Vogel’s ‘Bill and Joe Go Duck Hunting’ 9. Aleksandra Odic’s ‘Frida’ 10. Anna Podskalska’s ‘Red Shoes’ 11. Gonzalo Quincoces’s ‘The Fall of the Swift’ 12. Rodrigo Ribeyro’s ‘Cantareira’ 13. Oliver Rudolf’s ‘Fonica M-120’ 14. Oskar Kristinn Viginsson’s ‘Free Men’ 15. Adele Vincenti-Crasson’s ‘King Max’ 16. Lukas Von Berg’s ‘Saint Android’ 17. Yoon Daewoen’s ‘Cicada’ Read Free Online Movies: Best Netflix Alternatives for Streaming Movies in 2021 Cannes Classic 1. Marcel Camus’s ‘Black Orpheus’ of 1959 2. Vojtech Jasny’s ‘The Cassandra Cat’ of 1963 3. Henri Duparc’s ‘Dancing in the Dust’ of 1989 4. Philippe de Broca’s ‘Dear Louise’ of 1972 5. Masahiro Shinoda’s ‘Demon Pond’ of 1979 6. Marta Meszaros’s ‘Diary for My Children’ of 1983 7. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘The Double Life of Veronique’ of 1991 8. Orson Welles’s ‘F for Fake’ of 1973 9. Roberto Rossellini’s ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’ of 1950 10. Zdravko Velimirovic’s ‘The Fourteenth Day’ of 1960 11. Peter Wollen’s ‘Friendship’s Death’ of 1987 12. Jacques Doillon’s ‘The Hussy’ of 1978 13. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ of 1945 14. Bill Duke’s ‘The Killing Floor’ of 1985 15. Max Ophuls’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ of 1948 16. Raoul Peck’s ‘Lumumba, Death of a Prophet’ of 1990 17. Kinuyo Tanaka’s ‘The Moon Has Risen’ of 1955 18. David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ of 2001 19. Oscar Micheaux’s ‘Murder in Harlem’ of 1935 20. Gilles Grangier’s ‘Not Delivered’ of 1957 21. Ana Mariscal’s ‘The Path’ of 1958 22. Pietro Germi’s ‘Path of Hope’ of 1950 23. Tengiz Abuladze’s ‘Repentance’ of 1987 24. Alain Resnais’s ‘The War Is Over’ of 1966 Read Best Iranian Movies 2021 to Watch during Ramadan Fasting Latest Documentary 25. Yves Jeuland’s ‘All About Yves Montand’ 26. Javier Espada’s ‘Bunuel, A Surrealist Filmmaker’ 27. Andre Bonzel’s ‘Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone’ 28. Francesco Zippel’s ‘Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Blck Filmmaking’  29. Pascal-Alex Vincent’s ‘Satoshi Kon: The Dream Machine’ 30. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’ 31. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ Parallel Sections International Critics’ Week Feature Films 1. Simon Mesa Soto’s ‘Amparo’ 2. Omar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’ 3. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s ‘The Gravedigger’s wife’ 4. Clara Roquet’s ‘Libertad’ 5. Elie Grappe’s ‘Olga’ 6. Laura Samani’s ‘Small Body’ 7. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Zero F*cks Given’ Read 10 Best Adventure Movies Released in 2021 Short Films 1. Manolis Mavris’s ‘Brutalia, Days of Labour’ 2. Zou Jing’s ‘Lili Alone’  3. Hao Zhao & Yeung Tung’s ‘An Invitation’  4. Nicolai G.H. Johansen’s ‘Inherent’  5. Andrei Epure’s ‘Intercom 15’  6. Elinor Nechemya’s ‘If It Ain’t Broke’  7. Marie Larrive’s ‘Noir-Soleil’  8. Ian Barling’s ‘Safe’  9. Jimmy Laporal-Tresor’s ‘Soldat Noir’  10. Jela Hasler’s ‘On Solid Ground’  Special Screenings 1. Constance Meyer’s ‘Robust’  2. Vincent Le Port’s ‘Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer’  3. Samuel Theis’ ‘Softie’  4. Sandrine Kiberlain’s ‘A Radiant Girl’  5. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘Anais in Love’  6. Leyla Bouzid’s ‘A Story of Love and Desir’  Read Superstar Aamir Khan, filmmaker wife announce divorce Films for Invitations 1. Pablo Giles’ ‘Bisho’ 2. Jorge Sistos Moreno’s ‘La Oscuridad’  3. Indra Villasennor Amador’s ‘Pinky Promise’  4. Mariano Renteriia Garnica’s ‘A face covered with kisses’  Directors Fortnight Feature films 1. Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Chiara’  2. Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’  3. Clio Barnard’s ‘Ali & Ava’  4. Nathalie Alvarez Mesen’s ‘Clara Sola’  5. Yassine Qnia’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’  6. Miguel Gomes’ ‘The Tsugua Diaries’  7. Manuel Nieto Zas’ ‘The Employer and the Employee’  8. Anais Volpe’s ‘The Braves’  9. Haider Rashid’s ‘Europa’  10. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Futura’  11. Radu Muntean’s ‘Intregalde’  12. Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit The Road’  13. Vincent Mael Cardona’s ‘Magnetic Beats’  14. Luana Bajrami’s ‘The Hill where Lionesses Roar’  15. Anita Rocha da Silveira’s ‘Medusa’  16. Rachel Lang’s ‘Our Men’  17. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s ‘Murina’  18. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Neptune Frost’ 19. Emmanuel Carrere’s ‘Between Two Worlds’  20. Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ ‘The Tale of King Crab’  21. Jean-Gabriel Periot’s ‘Returning to Reims (Fragments)’ 22. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II’ 23. Shujun Wei’s ‘Ripples of Life’ 24. Ely Dagher’s ‘The Sea Ahead’ Read Will Smith opening up, releasing memoir ‘Will’ in November Special Screenings 1. Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Monrovia, Indiana’  2. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part I’  Short and Medium Length Movies 1. Eddie Alcazar’s ‘The Vandal’  2. Andreea Cristina Bortun’s ‘When Night Meets Dawn’  3. Mathilde Chavanne’s ‘Simone Is Gone’  4. Diego Marcon’s ‘The Parents’ Room’  5. Alberto Mielgo’s ‘The Windshield Viper’  6. Yoriko Mizushiri’s ‘Anxious Body’  7. Lois Patino and Matias Pineiro’s ‘Sycorax’  8. Sebastian Schjaer’s ‘The Sidereal Space’  9. Peter Tscherkassky’s ‘Train Again’  Summing up Like previous years, Cannes Film Festival 2021 will also be filled with the marching sounds of the new brilliant filmmakers. Despite the notion of its bringing the European films as art films, World filmmakers will get some tips to come out of the orthodox films and meet the new film appetite of the cinephiles. Read Bollywood: 'There is no life without you'